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the pulse, and the breathing also became changed : the pulse was 
wiry or thready, irregular and jerking, and the ribs began to heave 
violently. In the morning he was found dead. 
Examination : Trunk , S;c. — The body, when divested of its skin, 
presented a very strange appearance. The substance of the lips 
and the lower region of the head was filled with a bloody deposit : 
the same kind of deposit was present under the breast, down and 
over the whole of the fore limbs to the very hoofs ; along the under 
and lateral parts of the abdomen ; throughout the substance of the 
sheath ; over and under the faschia of the hind limbs, down to the 
very hoofs of them also. Surrounding the sheath, and reaching to 
where the hind legs join the trunk, was an immense deposit of 
black carbonaceous matter and coagulated serum, which deposit 
was more than four inches in thickness : in short, on every part of 
the body where cellular tissue abounded, these dark bloody de- 
posits were also found. 
Muscular System. — The gastrocnemii muscles of both limbs were 
stained throughout of a dark brown colour ; the same also with 
respect to the psoae muscles : this dark colour did not exist in 
patches, but the muscles appeared as though they had been steeped 
for several days in a dark brown liquid. The tissue of these 
muscles was very soft, and tore with the slightest force : every 
other muscle throughout the entire body was free from spot or 
stain — a fact, which, I think, somewhat remarkable ; they were 
pale in colour, however, and soft in texture. 
Digestive Organs . — On opening the abdominal cavity, about 
five quarts of dirty yellow-coloured fluid were liberated. The pe- 
ritoneum was extensively diseased ; it presented various shades of 
colour, from a light brown to a dark black kind of green : its sur- 
face was rough and granular-looking ; no lymph or purulent matter 
was present. The pyloric extremity of the stomach was invested 
with a coating of black green colour ; and, on exposing its internal 
surface, I found its mucous membrane to present a dirty pea-green 
colour ; while between the mucous membrane and the muscular 
tunic of the organ was a layer, three-eighths of an inch in thickness, 
of the bloody coagulum, such as I have described as existent upon 
the abdominal walls. This layer extended itself for eight or ten 
inches along and between the tissues of the duodenum, which gut 
was so much softened that its tissues separated in pieces, more as 
wet paper than any thing else I could compare them with. Patches 
of green were scattered here and there along the whole length of 
the small intestines. The greater portion of the csecum was gan- 
grenous, and between its tunics was also a coagulum more than 
one inch in thickness. The mesentery was covered with dark 
